Soap-holder attachment for water-faucets



(No Modeh A. R. MIRANDA. SOAP HOLDER ATTACHMENT FOR WATER FAUCETS.

Noi 479,330.

a; lllll ITP/ETLLEJ rawn UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM R. MIRANDA, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOAP-HOLDER ATTACHMENT FOR WATER-FAUCETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,330, dated July 19,1892,

Application filed March 26, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, ABRAHAM R. MIRANDA, a citizen of the United Statesof America, and a resident of the city of Boston,in the county ofSufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improved Soap-Holder Attachment for Water-Faucets, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists of a soap-holder attachment for water-faucets,whereby the water from the faucet may, if desired, be discharged with orwithout being charged with soap, all as hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a planView of the soap attachment of this invention for a bib cook or faucet.Fig. 2isa central vertical section, line 2 2, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents a bib faucet or cook of any of the usualor other suitable constructions, and preferably such as is used for hotwater in the water system of dwellinghouses and otherbuildings, 860.

B is a pipe, which, as particularly shown, is at one end held on and isin continuation of the nozzle A of the bib, and therefrom passes andopens to the upper portion of a vertical cylindrical vessel 0, which hasa perforated bottom 0 and a hinged top or cap 0 for convenience inopening and closing it.

The vessel 0 is for the soap D, which isto be of any suitable kind, andpreferably in comparatively small lumps orpieces, so as the better to beexposed to the water from the bib, and which enters the upper portion ofthe vessel from the pipe B, and thereby to facilitate and secure theimpregnation of the water with the soap, or, in other words,.to securesoap suds for discharge at the perforated bottom 0 of the vessel to beused as may be desired.

The Water-pipe connectionB of the bib-nozzle A and the soap-receptacle Chas a vertical dip or trap like portion, or, in other words, adescending leg B next adjacent to the nozzle and an ascending leg B nextadjacent to the soap-receptacle, both joined at their lower portions ortheir dip by a more or less hori zontal portion B and all in a manner tore- Serial No. 426,578. (No model.)

duce somewhat the force of the water passing from the bib before itenters the soap-receptacle, and thereby to insure the better charging ofthe water with soap.

E isadischarge-opening located at the horizontal and lowest portion 13of the pipe connection B between the bib-nozzle and the soap-receptacle,and F is a plug or stopper suitable when inserted in said opening E toclose said opening and when removed therefrom to open it. This stopper Fis attached to one end of a chain G, which at its other endis suitablysecured tothe soap-receptacle and otherwise, all so that the stopperremoved from the opening of the pipe connection is at hand forconvenience of being used to close said opening when desired. lVith thepipe connection of bib-nozzle and soap-receptacle closed at its openingE, the water from the bib then passes into and through the soap in thesoap-receptacle and out at its perforated bottom impregnated with soap,or, in other words, as soapsuds. With the stopper F removed from theopeningE of the pipe connection of the bib-nozzle and soap-receptacleobviously the Water from the bib is discharged before it enters thesoap-receptacle, and therefore clear, or, in other words, notimpregnated with soap, and the same as if it were directly at and fromthe faucet.

It is plain from the description given of the soap attachment of thisinvention that either soapsuds or clear water may at pleasure beobtained from it, according as either the one or the other may bewanted, the advantages of all of which when washing dishes and at othertimes are obvious without particular mention.

As particularly shown, the holding of the attachment of this inventionon the bib-nozzle is by forcing the open end of the pipe connection overthe outside of the nozzle and packing the joint with a piece of rubbertubing H. WVhile this is practical, yet it is not intended to limit thisinvention as to the attachment described to it, nor to any particularmeans of holding the attachment either on the bib or otherwise, so thatthe water passing from the bib shall be run or conducted through thesoap-receptacle.

Having thus described my invention, What lower portion havingadischargeorifice adapted to be opened and closed, all as described, forthe purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing I 5 witnesses.

ABRAHAM R. MIRANDA. Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, MARY W. STORER.

